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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half inches of rain had fallen since June 18 (seven to eight inches would have been normal). Typical of troubled U.S. farmers who searched the sky for rain was Montgomery County's John Stiles. In a lifetime of farming, he could not remember a worse dry spell...
...drought will probably cost John Stiles and his Maryland neighbors: 10 to 25% in milk, 37% in corn, 50% in late vegetables. In Virginia the potato crop was hit; in Delaware the dry spell took toll of tomatoes, limas, string beans, peaches. Total estimated crop damage in states bordering Washington, D.C.: $50 million...
...Italy, as the Allied radio had warned, the breathing spell was over (TIME, Aug. 16). Now the big planes, winging through the night from England, crested the Alps, dropped their explosive and incendiary reminders on Milan and Turin. By day, up from Mediterranean shores came precision bombers to give Rome its second, searing assault...
Concludes Dr. Reid: For good vitamin C values the harvesting of vegetables should not be done before mid-forenoon, say 10 o'clock, after a spell of clear weather; after a cloudy spell, not till late...
Fascismo's evil spell had been broken. Now through the streets and squares of Italy the people surged and strained to shape their destiny. It was a grand, awesome, chaotic hour in the life of a nation...